Chapter 7 The limelight is not good
After the ship entered the sea area north of Dongshan Island, it began to turn the rudder, heading in the direction of Dongshan Island, Yu Xiaotian while working, while listening to Liu Laoliu said, this Dongshan Island originally had a Tongshan Shan Zhai of the Zhangzhou Prefecture Army, in the early years, it was mainly set up to prevent the Japanese from preparing for the Japanese, earlier, it is said that there are dozens of warships such as lucky boats, sentinel boats, winter boats, etc., and there are more than 1,000 sailors.
In the early years, when the Japanese were serious, Qi Dashuai (Qi Jiguang) also presided over the anti-Japanese affairs here, but after Qi Jiguang was transferred to Liaodong, the Tongshan Shan Village here was gradually abandoned, and the warships were basically rotten but had not been replenished, and the original naval army was becoming less and less, so that by this time, the Tongshan Shan Zhai had existed in name only.
However, Dongshan Island has fresh water, and the government has lax control over this area, in recent years, the merchant ships passing along the way will come to this area to replenish fresh water, or buy some food and other things on the spot, or they can also take shelter from the wind or repair ships at the southern end of Dongshan Island.
At this time, they are going to Dongshan Island to replenish some fresh water to meet the needs of the next boat to Macao.
Yu Xiaotian learned some coastal things from Liu Laoliu's mouth, and at the same time, he could see that Liu Laoliu was an old sea wolf and knew a lot about the coastal affairs of Fujian and Guangdong.
After the ship turned, the wind on the sea began to get stronger, and the waves also increased, making the ship begin to become bumpy, and the hull of the ship rose and fell in the wind and waves, and from time to time there would be a few squeaks, which made Yu Xiaotian feel cold, and he was very worried about the ship, for fear that once the wind and waves were strong, the broken ship would not disintegrate on the spot.
After Liu Laoliu finished cleaning up the work at hand, he turned his head and saw Yu Xiaotian's worried look on his face, observing the boat from time to time, so he laughed, patted Yu Xiaotian on the shoulder and said, "Dumb!" You haven't been on a boat before! Is it seasickness? ”
Yu Xiaotian shook his head, indicating that he was not seasick, and pointed to the boat, Liu Laoliu immediately understood what Yu Xiaotian meant, so he smiled and said: "Don't worry, dumb!" In fact, this boat has not been a few years, the owner is willing to do this, and the wood used is good, and it can withstand strong winds and waves! Even if it is used for a few more years, this ship is fine, the ship is a good ship, but it is lacking in care, and it looks a little shabby, but this is good, some pirates like to pick a new ship to start, and if they wear it to look broken, some pirates will not look down on it! ”
After Yu Xiaotian heard this, he saw that most of the people on the ship were calm, which was a lot more relieved, and he realized why this ship looked quite dirty, it turned out that this was deliberately done by the owner, just to prevent pirates from targeting his ship!
However, Yu Xiaotian still disagrees with the shipowner's considerations, even if the hull is dilapidated, the things on the bottom of the ship must always be cleaned regularly! In addition, the cabin should at least be kept clean, so as to ensure the health of the boatman, it can be seen that although the owner has this consideration, but the people on the ship are lazy enough!
Probably because the area was not very peaceful, the atmosphere on the ship was a little more tense than before, and the upper bucket had already climbed the mast and began to look far away from the mast, monitoring the situation on the sea, and the other people on the ship would also glance at the surrounding sea from time to time if they had nothing to do.
As for Ma Biao, after suffering a loss at Xiaotian's hand, he was much more honest, and at this time he began to lead his three subordinates to get busy, and they led people to show off a lot of guys in the cabin.
Yu Xiaotian took a look, yo! Unexpectedly, they still have so many weapons on this ship, among these weapons, there are knives, some spears, and a few sharp axes, in addition to a few bows and bags of arrows, and of course, a few simple shields made of wooden planks, which are basically enough for the boatmen on the ship to have one, which shows that those of them who run ships at sea still have a strong sense of guarding against pirates.
It's just that Yu Xiaotian is a little disdainful that although these people have prepared weapons on the ship, they don't treat these weapons well, and these guys who took out, except for the bow that is set in cloth and is still well preserved, the rest are rusty and corroded by the salt spray on the sea, and they don't look good.
Then Ma Biao and the others took out a few more things, which made Yu Xiaotian a little surprised, he didn't expect that the owner of this ship actually had firearms.
Yu Xiaotian is no stranger to weapons, it is impossible for a young man like him not to like to play with this thing, so he recognized at a glance that among these guys, two were the famous three-eyed guns of the Ming Dynasty, and there were actually two arquebuses.
In the Ming Dynasty, musket technology has been popularized in the world, in addition to the Ming Dynasty for the manufacture of firearms also attaches more importance to the production of firearms, produced a lot of firearms, three-eyed guns and artillery equipment to the Ming army, and later through the Korean War captured by the Japanese iron cannons, and the Portuguese brought to China arquebus, developed a very famous bird gun, as well as imitation of the Western countries of the Furlong cannon and Hongyi cannon.
Therefore, the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty was relatively good, but what Yu Xiaotian didn't expect was that there would be such a guy on a civilian merchant ship, and he originally had the heart to pick it up and take a look, but considering his relationship with Ma Biao and the distrust of the people on the ship, he was afraid of causing misunderstanding among the people on the ship, so he gave up this idea.
However, he is not very interested in this crude primitive musket, one is that he doubts the quality of gunpowder in this era, and he also doubts the quality of this musket, this thing is said to be loud, but the power is limited, and it is very dangerous to use, because the craftsmen are not skilled, coupled with the corruption of the officials, the craftsmen can only cut corners, and the fire gun produced is easy to explode, so when he is not sure whether the quality of this thing is safe, even if he is given a shot, he does not dare to use it.
So although he was curious, he didn't show it, just glanced a few more times through the corner of his eye, and went about his business.
Although the wind increased and dark clouds began to appear in the sky, Liu Laoliu told Yu Xiaotian with his experience that the wind would not be too strong, and there would be no need to enter the port to avoid the wind, at most there would be a light rain, there was nothing to worry about, Yu Xiaotian glanced at the waves outside the ship that began to become turbulent, and his heart was basically let go.
In ancient times, there was no weather forecast, running a boat on the sea, and there were experienced boatmen on the full-screen boat to judge the weather conditions, Liu Laoliu had been on the sea for a long time, it can be said that he was already very experienced, since he said that there would be no bigger wind and waves, then basically eight or nine would not be far from ten, so Yu Xiaotian did not have to worry too much about what danger the ship would have.
Probably because they haven't seen land for many days, and now they are starting to sail towards Dongshan Island, estimating that they will be able to see the land soon, Yu Xiaotian is a little excited, people are creatures living on land, although the desire to enter the sea is realized by boat, but after a long time of drifting on the sea, after a long time, they will still yearn for the down-to-earth feeling on land.
Yu Xiaotian these days, after such great changes as life and death and crossing, it is understandable that he is eager to be down-to-earth again, even if he can't leave this boat at the moment, but being able to dock and move a little on the shore is also a thing worth looking forward to for him.
Ma Biao saw Yu Xiaotian again, and stared at Yu Xiaotian viciously from time to time, as if he wanted to swallow Yu Xiaotian in one gulp, but he didn't say anything to provoke Yu Xiaotian, it seems that he still remembers the lesson just now, and it is estimated that his ribs still hurt a little at this time, and Yu Xiaotian is too lazy to take care of him, in this environment, the strength is undoubtedly the decisive factor in determining a person's status, even a person like Ma Biao has to make some concessions to Xiaotian.
According to Liu Chuandong's instructions, Yu Xiaotian sent a bundle of short spears to the side of the ship, raised his head and looked into the distance, wanting to see if he could see land, when suddenly there was a loud shout above his head.
"Owner! Two boats came ahead! "It turned out that it was the one who was climbing on the mast and shouting from it.
Everyone on board heard the shout of the fighter, and they all rushed to the side of the ship, stretched their necks and looked ahead.
"Is it possible to see what is coming from?" Liu Chuandong ran to the side of the stern and asked loudly while looking ahead.
Yu Xiaotian couldn't stand his curiosity, and also stretched his neck and ran to the bow of the ship to look ahead, but except for the vast waves, he didn't find any sail shadow on the sea, which is why he sent someone to climb the mast, the surface of the earth has curvature, the higher you stand, the farther you can see, no wonder the people on the mast can see it, but those of them standing on the deck of the ship can't see it.
"Owner! It's too far away to see clearly! The upper bucket on the mast replied loudly as he looked hard.
"You're keeping an eye on it, look closer! Everyone else cheered up, too! Liu Chuandong shouted loudly.
So the people on the boat suddenly began to look a little nervous, and each ran to the position they were responsible for, the sail of the sail, the helm of the helm.
Yu Xiaotian comforted himself, he was unlucky enough now, he shouldn't be unlucky anymore, probably this place is close to Dongshan Island, and it is estimated that it may be a passing boat like them that met here by chance!
But this self-consolation did not last long, and after the ship had continued some distance, the upper bucket shouted again: "Master! The momentum is not good! Those two ships raised their sails and turned their rudders, and they came towards us! ”
After everyone heard his shout, they couldn't help but chuckle in their hearts, even Yu Xiaotian, a rookie, could imagine that in this case, instead of sailing to Dongshan Island, the two boats turned around and sailed towards them, and they would definitely not have any good intentions.
So Yu Xiaotian immediately pointed at God in his heart and scolded: Thief, God, you fucking want to play to death? First threw Lao Tzu into the sea, and then threw Lao Tzu into this unlucky era, almost drowned on the spot and fed the fish, Lao Tzu was finally rescued on this broken ship, and now you have sent two fucking pirate ships, isn't this pure to play with Lao Tzu?
Think about it when I went to sea with my uncle that day, I definitely didn't look at the yellow calendar, and I collided with a certain road decay god, so that he ended up like this, this standard is to win a series of bad luck awards, bad luck has gone to the extreme!
I saw that Liu Chuandong's face changed, and he shouted: "Do you see clearly?" Where the hell did they come from? ”
"Owner! They don't have flags on board! It's like two small lucky boats! ”
Shipowner Liu's face became more and more ugly, muttering that he didn't know what to scold, and yelled at the people on the boat: "Turn around!" Raise the sails! Don't go to Dongshan Island anymore! Let's avoid them! ”
When the people on the ship heard this, their faces were not good-looking, and one by one, according to the instructions of the owner, they began to turn the sails and rudder, turned the course of the ship to the southeast, began to raise the full sails, and accelerated away from here.
Soon after their ship turned around, the man on the mast shouted again, this time with a little trembling in his tone: "Boss! The two boats also turned their sails, and they are still coming towards us! They didn't hang the banner of the official army, and the people who came were not good! ”
At this time, the boat seemed to have exploded the camp, and suddenly there was chaos, and everyone rushed to the right side of the ship, stretched their necks hard, and looked at the sea outside the starboard side.
After a while, everyone saw that on the southwest sea level, the sails of two boats began to appear in the waves, but they were still far away, and they couldn't really see what kind of ship they were, but they could roughly see that these two boats were coming towards them.
Yu Xiaotian scolded in his heart; I'm really afraid of something! Lao Tzu's life is really declining! You can do anything!
"Don't think about it, they must be not good, they will all come back! Make another U-turn, raise the full sails, and head north with the wind! They can't figure it out that it's the Sea Harrier's people! Damn, that's bad luck! Ma Biao, prepare the guy to protect the ship! Liu Chuandong's face became a little blue at this time, and he yelled angrily and scolded.
Everyone on the boat once again rushed back to their responsible position, and even Yu Xiaotian ran to the wooden wheel used to raise the sail under the mast, and began to help the rest of the hand, pulling the wooden handle of the wooden wheel and pulling all the sails on the ship......
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